Tehachapi bans recreational marijuana: 'We are not desperate'

Tehachapi is the latest city in Kern County to take steps to ensure recreational marijuana will never be legally sold in the city, at least not without a long fight.

Monday, the City Council voted to extend a moratorium on nonmedical commercial cannabis activity in city limits. The moratorium would have expired Nov. 20 but will now be in place for another year.

In this time, the council members plan to pass a permanent law banning nonmedical commercial cannabis operations. This ordinance will be heard Nov. 6, will likely be passed two weeks later, and will then become law a month after the vote.